Tsumeb is the largest town in the Oshikoto region in northern Namibia and makes for a worthwhile stopover en route to your accommodation in Windhoek from Etosha National Park. This old mining town is the unexpected location of the Tsumeb Arts Performance Centre,...
The Hai||om people, an indigenous San community, call the Etosha Pan the “Lake of a Mother’s Tears” representing the depth of grief a mother feels when she loses a child. This is just one tiny drop in the ocean of the beauty and depth of the Hai||om culture, a...
What do all Namibians have in common? With 13 ethnic groups, a history of colonisation and administration under South Africa’s Apartheid government the answer might seem complicated. It is not, all Namibians have Namibia in common, a love and pride of their country....
Much of African culture resides in oral tradition; stories are passed on from parents to children, who in turn pass on those stories to their own children. The stories often develop along the way, the meaning and messages adapted slightly to fit the circumstances of...
In the opening scene of The God’s Must Be Crazy, a glass coke bottle falls from a passing helicopter and lands among a group of nomadic San people. At first a thing of fascination for the group, it later becomes a source of conflict and an object of evil that needs to...
